The letter that follows takes us on a darkly imagined excursion into the future. A military coup has taken place in the United States--the year is 2012--and General Thomas E. T. Brutus, Commander-in-Chief of the Unified Armed Forces of the United States, now occupies the White House as permanent Military Plenipotentiary. His position has been ratified by a national referendum, though scattered disorders still prevail and arrests for acts of sedition are underway. A senior retired officer of the Unified Armed Forces, known here simply as Prisoner 222305759, is one of those arrested, having been convicted by court-martial for opposing the coup. Prior to his execution, he is able to smuggle out of prison a letter to an old War College classmate discussing the "Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012." In it, he argues that the coup was the outgrowth of trends visible as far back as 1992. These trends were the massive diversion of military forces to civilian uses, the monolithic unification of the armed forces, and the insularity of the military community. His letter survives and is here presented verbatim.

...I expect that this is unlikely now...the Army is too multicultural...let’s say serious Reconquista broke out and the Texas National Guard was called in...there’s a real chance that hispanic guardsmen would go over or go home.

As a Commissioned Officer you swear to Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States. I would hope that any who “went over” would be hunted down and killed or tried and HANGED and those who Deserted would be hunted down, Court Marshaled and punished as Deserters should be!

Also, it’s worth remembering that after a while the Roman army became untrustworthy because it was no longer Roman...it was full of people from other tribes...the backbone of the US Army has always been the white working class...that has changed a lot since VietNam....lotta people from other tribes in there now.

"...the backbone of the US Army has always been the white working class...

Depends on how you define "always." Some of the finest soldiers and officers in the United States Armed Forces over the last 50 years are other than white. The United States Armed Forces are color blind. The rest of the country could learn from them.

I can't prove to you and FReepers reading this, but back in 1981 I told my wife, family, colleagues, and anyone who would listen that the Soviet Union would collapse, with the caveat that I probably wouldn't live to see it.

Actually, it wasn't all that difficult to predict, if you understand economics, sociology, etc.. Having said that, I believe anything can happen. Be it a military coup, the rise of a dictatorship in this great country, or the Lord returning.

All we can do in any of these situations is to be prepared. And I mean that in all of the possibilities stated.

“Some of the finest soldiers and officers in the United States Armed Forces over the last 50 years are other than white...”

....that may be true, but it won’t matter...the US is headed for tribal war which will fracture the country along racial and ethnic lines....see Thomas Chittum’s “Civil war Two: The Coming Breakup of America”http://www.timebomb2000.com/misc/CWII.pdf

Depends on how you define "always." Some of the finest soldiers and officers in the United States Armed Forces over the last 50 years are other than white. The United States Armed Forces are color blind. The rest of the country could learn from them.

It would be far more to the point were this journal to outline the far more possible assembly of a US constitutional convention. The US military would be essential in protecting that convention from interference by foreign intelligence and lobbyist operations, and attacks from fanatics and terrorists.

Even so, US military personnel would not be permitted into the perimeter surrounding the convention, nor would any other federal officer. Instead, were the convention to be held in Texas, a likely location, each individual State would be asked to send 2 delegates with a platoon of 30 “adult individuals of good character” as their security. A total of 1500 Americans who would guard the convention within the perimeter.

Outside the perimeter would be directly guarded by the Texas State Police and the Texas Rangers, but not the National Guard. Outside of their area, the US military would protect and defend the convention against those who would interfere with it.

All involved would be sworn to uphold and defend the convention. And the convention would have to be seated until 3/4ths of the individual States have voted in favor of the new constitution, and those changes carried out. Any federal officer who refused to obey the convention’s directives could be removed from officer after that, with a simple majority vote.

Once this was done, as a final act, the convention would sit in judgment of anyone who attempted to inappropriately interfere, monitor, or otherwise influence the convention. The judgment of these trials could not be appealed.

“Whose agitprop have you been reading, and apparently believing, such that you believe that pile of bovine squeeze?”

There was a book awhile ago called “Silent Coup”. Written by a couple of investigative reporter-types about the Watergate thing. That was one facet of the book. It had lots of documentation, etc. Lots of in-fighting between the military and Nixon’s State Department, etc.

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posted on 08/22/2009 7:21:53 PM PDT
by 21twelve
(Drive Reality out with a pitchfork if you want , it always comes back.)

That Marine said it all - the Nazis were the Socialist Party - They took over the financial institutions, then the auto industry, then the health care -

then...............the Brown Shirts

the obamination is ready with his Blue Shirts and his private army that will be “Just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded as our military.” (Good God, he said it on national TV before the election - and he still got elected.

WE have about 3 million in our military...spread out across the world. ‘just as strong’? That would give an average of 60,000 of his private force in every state. - over and above out guard, our troopers, sheriffs and police.

There can be only one reason for such a ‘force’...to control US.

WE can't natter on about throwing the rats out in 2010 - it will far too late. We have to keep up the public outcry - ramp it up. And email, call and FAX your reps over and over. They count up the number of such - and they are concerned, more than anything, about their own political butts. If they get buried in emails, call and FAXes and they keep coming , they'll back off.

Put it on your to=do list - do it once a day ...and google for the times and places of your states Tea Parties - the media will start covering them - they see the obaminations poll #’s slipping bad = and like all rats, when the going gets tough, they turn on one another.

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posted on 08/22/2009 9:32:21 PM PDT
by maine-iac7
("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)

Interesting, but very dated. "Overtaken by events." My third novel covers a military coup to restore the original Constitution, overthrowing the domestic enemies who have conducted a bogus constitutional convention, and given us an invalid "new constitution."

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